"...I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."

- Charlotte Bront,Jane Eyre


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"....I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

- Frederick Douglass

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are",

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." --- Ayn Rand.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates

On 2025-11-06 10:40:50 Motocat said:
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates

How true.
Love it.

Making one person smile can change the world -- maybe not the whole world, but their world.

"....Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

- Cecil Beaton

On 2025-10-24 14:10:09 Motocat said:
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are",

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Physiology of Taste

Going by the above, Americans are fast, cheap and easy

French are Buttery, Cheesy and Flaky

South Africans are charred, chipped and fudged

Indians are hot and spicy

British are................lets just leave them alone for once

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